Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1938 — Page 11
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Our Wanderer Feels It His Duty To Tell You of the U. S.-Canada Bridge to Be Dedicated Tomorrow.
OCKPORT, Ontario, Aug. 17.—Tomor- | row President Roosevelt will be dedicat-
‘ ing the new International Thousand Island " Bridge between the U. S. and Canada.
~The papers probably won’t tell you much about the bridge, and President Roosevelt
. won't either, because he hasn't seen it yet.. But your
ubiguitous reporter has already been on the bridge, under it, over it and beside it, 50 he will tell you all. There isn’t anything so remarkable about the bridge, except that it’s in five different sections, and just jumps from one island to another across the St. Lawrence, lke “Eliza, Crossing the. ice. . The St. Lawrence River st this point is about 7 miles wide, and looks like a Jake. There is a deep channel for big boats close to each shoreline, Then out across the center are lots of islands, and the © water around them is shallower. So this bridge consists of a big, long ‘high span each side, roads running across 1 islands in the center, and three smaller bridges connecting these nds.
The whole conglomeration is 7% miles long. Of this, 2% miles are actual bridge, and 5% miles are new roads built across the islands. Since there isn’t any one long span that reaches clear from the American mainland to the Canadian mainland, ‘the actual “international” part of the bridge becomes in reality the smallest span of the whole works—a little 90-foot structure right in the middle which connects two islands, one American, one Canadian. It is ‘on this span that the dedication ceremonies will be ‘held. The boundary line runs right under
. the little bridge. The span is only 90 feet long, and . is called the “Biggest Little Bridge in the World,”
because it’s the smallest known bridge connecting two nations.
Both New York State ‘and ‘Ontario have to build
‘new roads leading up to the bridge, since it starts
and ends right out. in the middle of nowhere. Canada has been working hard on her road, but if it’s ready by dedication: day itll be a miracle slew | equal to the Quintuplets. I was suddenly seized with a desire to get right aw] and put my foot on the Canadian end of the bridge. It took me an hour after leaving the main highway, although it’s only a few miles. We got lost, compietely turned around, almost jolted out of the car, and finally wound up by having to pay 10 cents to go through a farmer's gate. After that we drove in low gear as far as we could, and then walked a quarter of a mile. When we got there, it just looked like.a new bridge.
Toll Will Be $1.50 The bridge cost $3,050,000. It is being built by a
semi-private company, under authority from New:
York and Ontario. They will charge $1.50 toll for a car and passengers, which is about half the ferry rate. When the company has its money back, the bridge will be turned over free to New York and Ontario. They expect everything to be clear within 15 years. The bridge is the only all-highway bridge between Lake Ontario and Montreal. There are ferries every 15 miles or so up and down the river, but along here the ferry takes an hour, costs $3.50 for a car and two people, and is stymied in wintertime by ice. They say this new bridge will be the nearest point of entrance to Canada from New York City. The bridge was started a year ago last spring, and is finished in 14 months. The reason for the fast work is that they had so many points of attack—not just two ends, as in most bridges, but a dozen points all across the islands. Bridge builders;=1 am told, figure on -an average: of one fatality for every million dbllars spent. B there hasn’t been a single fatality on this bridge. The worst accident was when a sliver of steel flew off a sledge and put out a workman's eye.
My Diary
By Mrs.. Eleanor Roosevelt
Believes Many of South's Riches ‘Go for Nothing Because of Customs.
YDE PARK, Tuesday.—I never mentioned, the other day, one of the most delightful things which has come my way this summer. A quintet from the Tuskegee Institute had been| singing across the river at Lake Mohonk and Lake Minnewaska, and they telephoned to inquire if they could come to sing for us. They arrived soon after luncheon and we all sat out on the lawn while they stood with their backs to the house and sang one Negro spiritual after another. Finally, at our request, they sang some of the more modern songs and ended with a comic number which brought forth peals'of laughter.
We decided that they were the best quintet we
had heard and that it was a joy to listen to people who were so beautifully trained and had such a natural gift. Afterward, I was much interested in asking some of these young men what they were training themselves to do. Two are going into agriculture and plan to go back to their homes in the South where they will try tp raise the standards on the farm so as to become successful farmers, instead of only achieving a meager living as in the past. One plans to be a teacher and another is studying theory of music and hopes to be both a music teacher and.a composer. The South has so many potential riches, but it always seems to me that many of its advantages go for nothing because of habits and customs which have grown up and been injurious to the land and people. The people who have been forced to the lowest standards of living and have a minimum of education and the lowes# cash income are the Negroes and I think it has always been felt by the South that, in some mysterious way, this is an advantage. During the past few years some question has arisen in the minds of many Southern people as to whether a backward group is ever an advantage.
Experiences Hudson River Storm
Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes:and many other institutions with excellent training are making it possible for this Negro group to change its. conditions. It is a gradual change, but no less sure and it is felt that this will benefit the economic situation in the South as a whole.
My. cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Forest Henderson, and |
their three children drove up from Greenwich, Conn, for lunch today and all were able to swim before they left a little after 4 o'clock. Now a real Hudson River thunderstorm is upon us It started with a wind that blew everything off the tables which was not actually weighted down. I found Miss Irene Orndorff, who has come to replace Miss Dow, whom we saw regretfully go back to her home and her husband in Washington yesterday, gazing out of the window and saying: “This is the first storm I have seen on the Hudson River.” Evidently the shades of Henry Hudson and his men arose
‘before her eyes. She is a great reader”and I am
sure is familiar with the legends of the Hudson River which we were told in our youth and which explain these sudden and violent storms.
Bob Burns Says—
OLLYWOOD, Aug. 17.—Many’s the time I've done some impulsive thing and thought I was perfectly right in doin’ it, but when I'd get home and take my shoes off so’s I could really think about. it, I've seen that what I'd done wasn’t the right thing at all. I suppose everybody's had a similar experience.
iy remember one time when Grandpa Snazzy was | goin” by Uncle Slug’s house ‘and saw him runnin’ out |
of the house with a bunch of dishes flyin’ at his head.
Grandpa dashed inside just as Aunt Boo was pickin’
up the last stack of dishes. Grandpa says, “Good gracious, Aunt Boo, you won't have a dish in’ the’ house.” = Aunt Boo said, “Don’t you interfere. I'll teach Slug to crack the handle off my bess teapot.” (Copyright, t. 1038)
, in South Carolina, | headlines about Senator George's
his
CC. 1. O.
Georgia Is ah a
Roosevelt’ s Stand Against George Brings Perplexity and Resentment
By Thomas L. Stokes
Times Special Writer
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ATLANTA, Aug. 17.—My own, my native land, isin a ‘dither. As soon as I crossed the state line on my way from ‘Washington I began to hear plenty about it. . Confusion and perplexity exist, and resentment over President Roosevelt's trying to tell them how to vote—not to vote for their elder statesman, Senator Walter F. George, nor for “Old Gene” Talmadge, hero of the folks who look from their cabins across cotton and .corn patches. Lots of them don’t know the fellow Mr. Roosevelt wants them to vote for—Lawrence Camp—and Georgians,
like to get sort of close to their politicians and feel they know them. But lots of them, all the same, are going to vote for him because Mr. Roosevelt wants them to. How it all will end no one can tell you yet. But theyre all talking. I didn’t have to wait until I bumped my car over the bridge
_ which spans the narrow Tugaloo
River, the boundary between South Carolina and Georgia, to find this out. dye to the
challenge to the President. 2 8 = Fon President wasn’t very kind about their own “Cotton Ed” Smith, and they are very conscious of this business which the newspapers label “the party purge.”
Georgia, in politics. time, is’ lots
“of fun, like the crazy house at the amusement park. Especially
. to a native:
One of my earliest recollections is of another three-cornered race, that time for Governor,’ with the late Clark Howell and the late Hoke Smith and old Dick Russell, who still presides over the Georgia . Supreme Court and has a boy,
. young Dick, in the U. S. Senate.
Every kid in the neighborhood ware a campaign button—and the arguments were furious. © Georgia is that way today. Toccoa, just over the South Carolina line, blinked under a relentless sun. In the shade of the trees on the lawn—where a few mothers held babies in their arms waiting for their menfolks—on the Court House steps and portico, and in the comparative cool within, they were talking about it, old men, middle-aged men, young men, all in overalls. 2 =n 8 AIN'T a-telling what I:think, mister,” rian drawled. “Roosevelt’s - a mighty fine man,” said another, as he spat from the porch into the yard. “Yep,” drawled a third, ‘“he’ll tear the whole country up if you give him time,” he chuckled. This,
one suspected, was a Talmadge
man. There are lots of them in
For it was the major topic .
~ will carry the county.
one near-octogena- *
this" north Georgia mountain country.
They were confused. So were
the political experts of Stephens County who were consulted.
, One pointed ‘out that in a recent county election those known as Talmadge followers cast about 300 of the 800 votes, more than a third. | With: a. little. work, the Talmadge people might be able to .roll up more: than a third in the
* Here's the picture story. of. a Presidential “purge”
as portrayed by expressions of the “blessed.”
primary Sept. 14 so that he would :
top the list and carry the county. Under the antiquated Georgia system every county ‘votes as a unit, But Senator George’ Ss people 2 are working hard in the county. And in the furniture factories here all the workers are: expected to vote for Mr. Camp because Mr. Roosevelt is for him—and because "the President put over the WageHour Bill. This expert didn't | Know yet what might happen. In ten days he thought it might shake down so you could tell. “=.
“Is he crazy? He wants to run
~ state elections, -t00,”” blurted out
a supporter of Senator George. He was bitter—and worried, a gituation found on down ‘the line toward Atlanta. among the George adherents, though not all. Some are confident the Senator will win. :
8 8 = N Habersham County, much resentment over the President's “interference” was reported by townspeople and by a newspaper editor who js sure Senator George Asked about the general situation, he said: “It’s mad.” “Mad and mixed” is a good de-" scription. A country doctor who travels all over this country and knows the people was philosophical. “I heard them talking around
« the radio“leudspeaker at the drugstore when the President spoke.
They were resentful all right. But * these are funny people. They'll tell you they are going to do one thing—and 15 minutes later they’ll do something else. Theyre mad now, though, lots of them.” A. 8. Hardy, editor of the Gainesville News and prominent
‘Georgia’s Senator Walter George ap- | plands (left) as Mr. Roosevelt begins his Barnese speech. Then: the blow . . . Senator George .
“purged” and the
BT Sa
On the political “march ihfoneh. Georgia” in which he sought the political defeat of Senator George and election of his opponent, U. S. District Attorney Camp, President Roosevelt got a rousing welcome at
his “second home,”
Warm Springs. Here, smiling and looking very .
healthy after his sea vacation, is the President at Warm Springs.
in Georgia politics, thought the President's speech hadn't changed the situation and that Senator George would win. He figures a run-off between the Senator and ex-Governor Talmadge, with the
former winning that. “I'm not mad. I think the President’s ggt a perfect right to come in here and ‘say who he
Times Special : UMBERLAND, Md, Aug. 17.— Evangelist Dan McNally, who is leading an anti-C. I. O. crusade in this C. I. O. community, is carrying on the traditions of Gerald Smith, Gerald Winrod .and Father Coughlin by coupling politics with religion. Mr. McNally, an ex-convict, sells life-story, “From ‘Crime to Christ,” telling his past as a criminal and his reformation. He is the loudest opponent here of Rep. David Lewis, laborite and New Dealer who is seeking to unseat Senafor Millard Tydings in the Democratic primary Sept. 12. Mass meetings, a newspaper of his
own, and frequent radio ‘speeches
are used by the evangelist in: his attempt to connect Rep. Lewis with the C. I. O. and with ‘communism. mine and textile unions are strong in this mountain region. They support Rep. Lewis, who is also endorsed officially by President William Green. of the A. F. of L. “. I. 0 Licked” was the big
Side Se as
headline on the McNally paper, Brother Dan’s Searchlight, over a story reporting that workers in the big Celanese Corp. plant ‘(under C. 1. O. contract for a year) are joining a new independent union called the American. Federation for Justice. : i When Cumberland’s Mayor Thomas Koon ‘and ‘ Mr. McNally spoke at a recent mass-meeting C. 1. O. men booed and rotten eggs were cast at the speakers. “They smelled just like Communists,” said Mayor Koon of the eggs. He complained to Governor Nice and to the Senate Civil Liberties Committee. Several C. 1. O. men were arrested. a 88 OHN T. JONES, local district president of the United Mine Workers, has sued Mr. McNally and a radio station for libel, and the trial is scheduled for October. Brother Dan’s Searchlight also has carried articles defending Mayor Hague of Jersey City.
Clark
Ex-Convict Evangelist Battles C. . O. In One of Its Maryland Strongholds
Mr. McNally’s newspaper attacks on Rep. Lewis emphasizes that the
Congressman is supported by Mau-
ritz Hallgren, former Baltimore ‘Sun writer. It refers to Mr. Hallgren, as “a- notorious Communist,” while noting that he denies he has ever been a member of the Communist Party :
“Mr. Lewis : has lain down with
dogs, and has gotten up with fleas, .
says the Searchlight. Mr. McNally's autobiography tells of a boyhood in the West Virginia
hills followed by a period of hobo-:
ing. and banditry, ieading to a long term in Missouri State Penitentiary
for larceny, which was cxtended by
a desperate jail-breaking attempt. After his release in 1924 he became an. evangelist in the West, mostly in California and Oregon. He has been conducting revival
meetings in “this area for months, talking against unionism, showing | wounds he received in his prison |
escape attempts, telling how he saw the light in the prison hospital. He takes collections and - ‘sells his books at $1 each,
wants, only I don’t like to see
“him” speak against the man I favor. I think the people here are still for President Roosevelt— but they're ‘also for Senator George.” : 2 8 28 N the counties I visited on the way to Atlanta registration is off due to payroll taxes. That will work to the advantage of Senator George. The business people, his mainstay, and the middleclass citizens, - have paid their taxes. Gene Talmadge seems a thei, He has a stanch following who are for “Old Gene” whatever office he seeks, a good deal like those who worshiped the late
Senator Tom Watson. Their kind of faith is demonstrated in a story they tell about one of Tom Watson's followers, a prominent
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‘at ‘Postotfice, Indianapolis, Ind.
shows the pain of a political kick when the President asks his defeat. And U. S. District Attorney Walter Camp registers elation (right) as he gets the Presidential blessing in the bitter Georgia campaign for U. S. Senator.
Former Governor Talmadge
man in this section. Tom Watson got drunk one night and. raised a ruckus in a hotel at: Buford, Ga., and was put in jail. This follower heard about it. “I know Tom Watson wasn't drunk because he doesn’t drink,” he said. “But if he was in jail at Buford and did want a drink I'd crawl all the way from Gainesville
to Buford and give him a drink—4
if that was the only way he could get it.”
Urges Improvements in Panama Canal Zone
Times ‘Special 18g Ea ASHINGTON, il 17. “Rep. Snyder (D. 'Pa.), chairman of the House Subcommittee on War Department Appropriations, is back
| from: an inspection of Canal Zone
defenses: with two recommendations he¢ is Placing “before President Roosevelt. : One is that roads to the existing military installations" must be ‘improved. Many of the latter, he said, ‘are necessarily ‘situated -in ‘jungle Subiry and during the Jong: rainy
Everyday Movies—By Wortman .
-quarters are'the same. Mr. Snyder said, is made wmore|
season it is difficult or impossible
to reach them with motor equip- |
ment. The other is that there should be more barracks for the Army's enlisted men, ‘numbering about 11,000. The gorrison has been increased: recently but the ‘living This need,
urgent by tropical conditions—more space ‘per soldier is required than in temperate- zones to assure health and comfort.
TF EST YO U R KNOWLEDGE
1—Where, is lands called The Hebrides? 2—Who was the first Admiral y of the U. S. Navy?. .
3—Which of the States leads 3
in coal production. is 4—Does the United States own the Panama Canal Zone? 5—Where is the Isle of Man? 6—How can the area of a circle . . be determined? 7—Name the President of Af- ?
gentina 8—What is a will called that is entirely in the handwriting of the testator? = Co» 2 s
ANSWERS 1—-Off the coast of Scotland.
perpetuity from the Republic of Pan5—In the Irish Sea. 6—Multiply 3.1416 by the square of the radius of the circle.
7—Roberto M. Ortiz. #-Holographic wi.
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By. Raymond Clapper
Roosevelt-George Row Progresses In the Best Gentlemanly Fashion; Proving Georgian Guilty Is Hard, (Anton Scherrer Is on Vacation)
VVASHINGTON, Aug. 17. — Senator George of Georgia has come back in Round: Two of his engagement with President Roosevelt in most gentlemanly style. In fact the whole fight has been quite: gen<
tlemanly thus far, despite the attempt to make it appear: like a barrel-house brawl. Boxers customarily shake hands before beginning to slug each other, Similarly Roosevelt and {reorss
exchanged privately ‘assurances of mutual friendship and affection be-. . fore they went to it. ia Shortly before Roosevelt left on his Western trip, having just announced his Senatorial purge, Senator George wrote him a friendly letter. There had been rumors. One of them was that in a radio broadcast during the Supreme Court fight, - Senator George, departing from his * manuscript, added a venomous
{ stinger about Roosevelt. One ver-
sion long current in Washington as ; that George said some g - abou Me: | traitors. It was to this apparently My; Clapper that George referred in his Waycross speech this week when he said that Mr. Roosevelt, “like all human beings, had sometimes received . misinformation,” adde ing that “all men in high places are sometimes given misinformation for the purpose of advancing those who furnish that information.” Those rumors. had so disturbed Senator -George that some weeks ago he wrote President Roosevelt a personal letter stating in substance that he Or stood the President had heard . that George had spoken of him in offensive language. George went on to say that he had never meant to be offensive at any time and that he had the deepest personal affection for the. President. Roosevelt, shortly before leaving for the West, replied to George. He said that he had heard rumors but that he was certain that while the Senator might have Jeen vigorous in his language, he was never offensive.
A Warning of Things to Come
Then the President went on to give warning of what was to come. He said that he felt very deeply about the country and about its future. Senator George had every right to be a conservative, but. if he - had lived in the North the chances were 10 to one that he would have been a Republican. In fact, the President thought, a man with Senator . George's ability might very well have been a:Republican Sen ator from one of the Northern states. The President recognized that there would be deep divergences of opinion between himself and other public men, but he felt that personal friendships should not be af« fected by them. | That bit of punctilio over with, the fight began. George is proving a tough customer to get hold of, His reputation around Washington is conservaiive, He has fought on the side of utilities. He was the champion of the power-lobby in blocking a Senate investigation of the utility. industry some. years ago . fought the Holding Company Act.” Yet he ‘voted
: pe and later for amendments to enlarge its ac-
tivities, which wasn’t the way a well-behaved tool of the utilities should act. Things like that, plus a long string of New Deal votes, make the case against George difficult to prove, Nobody in Washington considers him any more of a New Dealer than: John Hamilton. - Conservative lobbyists count him as their friend. : I don’t consider George a New Dealer. Yet when I try to diagram the proof out of the record I can’t do-it. You have to -give George a Scotch verdict—guilty ‘but not ‘proven.
Jane Jordan—
| More Disillusionment Is Believed | Needed to Cure Boy's Unhappiness.
EAR JANE JORDAN—Until a short time ago I went with a girl I loved very much. I was true to her, and did everything I .could .to please her, We planned to get married as soon as I could get a ob, but trouble arose before then, We live about miles apart and for that reason I couldn’t be with her all the time. I went. to see her one day and she wasn’t home. Later I found out that she was with a married man. We had a quarrel and split up. She often said that we were meant for each other and I really believe we were. I know Il never find another girl for whom I. can. care half as much. Do you think I am better off without her? BROKEN HEARTED. | 2 2 8 Answer—You've probably endowed the- girl with qualities which she does not possess and are in love with your own ideas about her rather than the girl herself. Now that you are ‘confronted with the reality of her, you do.not like 'it. Of course you're better off without ‘her. The ‘chances are that she told the married man that. they; too, were. meant for each other and that he was as flattered and happy about J as you were. Doubtless the young lady is gifted in pleasing men but likes variety. If what you want is a faithful girl, 1 imaging
you'd better look elsewhere. However, I do not think you are cured. Thers are two ways in which you can speed your recove ery. One is the boon of another. girl who can arouse your interest and’ help you forget your disappoint ment. The other is to go back to the girl you left and allow yourself to be burned again and again, ‘Possibly the- best:SHifie You éan'do'ss 15 patch Shines ‘up temporarily and give her a chance to disillusion youu more Shoroughiy. As it is you have a feeling of unfinished business ‘which is. Ln you unhappy. Another whirl: may eure. completely. 30 * - JANE JORDAN. t
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